Samuel T. Durrance
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| JHU Payload Specialist | |
| Nationality | American |
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September 17, 1943 (age 73) Tallahassee, Florida |
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Other occupation
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Scientist |
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Time in space
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25d 14h 13min |
| Missions | STS-35, STS-67 |
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Mission insignia
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Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.
Durrance was born September 17, 1943, in Tallahassee, Florida, but considers Tampa, Florida his hometown. He received a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in physics (with honors), at California State University, Los Angeles, 1972 and 1974, respectively, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in astro-geophysics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1980.
Durrance was a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a co-investigator for the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, one of the instruments of the Astro Observatory.
Starting in 2000, he was the executive director of the Florida Space Research Institute which was located at the NASA Kennedy Space Center.
He now resides in Melbourne, Florida and is a professor of Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology.
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